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The English Language in the Year 3000

Started by LD, May 24, 2009, 01:35:16 AM

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May 24, 2009, 01:35:16 AM Last Edit: December 31, 1969, 07:00:00 PM by Rorschach Fritos
http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/futurese.html

For anyone interested...

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May 24, 2009, 01:42:31 AM
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May 24, 2009, 02:06:40 AM
*casts summon linguist*

limetom

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May 24, 2009, 05:43:08 AM
Quote from: Nomadic*casts summon linguist*
Hahaha.


Pretty nifty stuff here.  Does what us linguists do looking backwards at language, and applied it going forwards.

Wensleydale

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May 24, 2009, 09:37:04 AM
... oooooooooh.

This seems quite interesting. It has some slightly bizarre grammatical changes that up to my present explorations, they haven't quite explained, but like Limetom said, it's reverse application of usual linguistic study.

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May 24, 2009, 01:11:26 PM
Yebrugm Lang'n seems like it would be an interesting name...
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